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An Action Towards Humanization: Doorn Manifesto in a Transnational Perspective Research Collection Conference Paper An action towards humanization: Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective Author(s): Charitonidou, Marianna Publication Date: 2019-04-11 Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000451108 Rights / License: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted This page was generated automatically upon download from the ETH Zurich Research Collection. For more information please consult the Terms of use. ETH Library REVISITING THE POST-CIAM GENERATION Debates, proposals and intellectual framework Proceedings Edited by Nuno Correia Maria Helena Maia Rute Figueiredo CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal Histoire et Critique des Arts Université Rennes 2, France Porto: ESAP, April 11-13, 2019 Title: REVISITING THE POST-CIAM GENERATION Debates, proposals and intellectual framework. Proceedings Editors: Nuno Correia, Maria Helena Maia and Rute Figueiredo © Authors and CEAA/ESAP-CESAP, 2018 Cover design: Sérgio Correia Edition: Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo /ESAP-CESAP 1st edition: April 2019 Print on line pdf available at. https://comum.rcaap.pt/ http://www.ceaa.pt/publicacao/revisiting-post-ciam-generation-debates-proposal-2 https://post-ciam-generation.weebly.com/proceedings.html ISBN: 978-972-8784-85-0 This publication was funded by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UID/EAT/04041/2019. The texts published were submitted to a peer review process. Referees: Alexandra Cardoso, Alexandra Trevisan, Ana Tostões, Bruno Gil, Cristina Pallini, José António Bandeirinha, Maria Helena Maia, Mariann Simon, Nuno Correia, Pedro Baía, Raúl Martínez, Rute Figueiredo, Tiago Cardoso de Oliveira, Tiago Lopes Dias The authors of the texts have the exclusive responsibility of image copyrights printed in the correspondent texts. The editors do not accept any responsibility for any improper use of images and any consequences following. Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo Escola Superior Artística do Porto Largo de S. Domingos, 80 4050-545 PORTO, PORTUGAL Phone: (+351)223392130 Email: [email protected] www.ceaa.pt AN ACTION TOWARDS HUMANIZATION Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective Marianna Charitonidou Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens and the Department of Art Theory and History Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece Abstract In 1957, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, in “Continuità o Crisi?”, published in Casabella Continuità, considered history as a process, highlighting that history can be understood as being either in a condition of continuity or in a condition of crisis “accordingly as one wishes to emphasize either permanence or emergency”. A year earlier, Le Corbusier in a diagram he sent to the tenth CIAM at Dubrovnik, he called attention to a turning point within the circle of the CIAM, maintaining that after 1956 its dominant approach had been characterised by a reorientation of the interest towards what he called “action towards humanisation”. The paper examines whether this humanising process is part of a crisis or an evolution, on the one hand, and compares the directions that were taken regarding architecture’s humanisation project within a transnational network, on the other hand. An important instance regarding this reorientation of architecture’s epistemology was the First International Conference on Proportion in the Arts at the IX Triennale di Milano in 1951, where Le Corbusier presented his Modulor and Sigfried Giedion, Matila Ghyka, Pier Luigi Nervi, Andreas Speiser and Bruno Zevi intervened among others. The debates that took place during this conference epitomise the attraction of architecture’s dominant discourse to humanisation ideals. In a different context, the Doorn manifesto (1954), signed by the architects Peter Smithson, John Voelcker, Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck and Daniel van Ginkel and the economist Hans Hovens-Greve and embraced by the younger generation, is interpreted as a climax of this generalised tendency to “humanise” architectural discourse and to overcome the rejection of the rigidness of the modernist ideals. This paper presents how the debates regarding the Doorn manifesto evolved in the pages of the following journals: The Architectural Review, Architectural Design, Casabella Continuità, Arquitectura, L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui and Forum. An aspect that is closely investigated is that of which epistemological tools coming from other disciplines - philosophy, sociology, anthropology and so on - are more dominant in each of these architectural journals. The fact that each of these journals is closely connected to a specific national context - U.K., Italy, Portugal, France and Holland respectively - offers the opportunity to discern to what disciplines architecture was attracted within these different contexts during its effort to “humanise” its discourse and conceptual tools. Keywords: humanisation, transnational perspective, generation, continuità, Doorstep REVISITING POST-CIAM GENERATION: debates, proposals and intellectual framework Proceedings. Porto, April 11-13, 2019 Post-war humanism in a transnational perspective Despite the intensity of the debates during the late 1950s such as those between Reyner Banham and Ernesto Nathan Rogers in the pages of The Architectural Review and Casabella Continuità or the critique of BBPR’s Torre Velasca by Peter Smithson and Jaap Bakema at the 1959 CIAM conference in Otterlo, there are certain common denominators characterising the rejection of the rigidity of the modernist ideals in different national contexts. Their affinities are related to the socioeconomic conditions of the post-war context and the reconceptualization of the relationship between architecture and urban planning. Within such a context, the conflicts between the protagonist figures representing different national contexts became an engine of regeneration of architecture’s scope, revitalizing the architects’ role in the transformation of post-war societies. These debates not only are of great importance for understanding the shift between the CIAM and the post-CIAM philosophy, but also shaped the ideals and vision that dominated the architectural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. A common preoccupation was the concern about the humanist aspect of architecture. As Ákos Moravánszky remarks, ‘[h]umanism as a program that places the human being in the center of the universe was embraced by all sides during the Second World War and in the years of reconstruction’. Moravánszky also underscores that humanism ‘[i]n the postwar years […] provided an ideal common ground for liberal and socialist positions’ (2016: 23). The cross-fertilization between The Architectural Review, Architectural Design, Casabella Continuità, Arquitectura, L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui and Forum can inform our comprehension of the exchanges and cultural transfers regarding architecture between the UK, Italy, Portugal, France and Holland. All the above- mentioned architecture journals contributed to the dissemination of Team 10’s concerns. Of great significance regarding the reception of Team 10 in France is the special issue of L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui in 1975 devoted to Team 10 and titled ‘Team 10 + 20’. The journal Arquitectura was one of the most significant architecture journals in Portugal in the 1950s. Important for understanding the exchanges between Portugal and Italy is Nuno Portas, who was among its main contributors. His article entitled “Literatura arquitectónica I: L’Architettura, 69 Marianna Charitonidou, An Action towards Humanization: Doorn manifesto in a transnational perspective cronache e storia” was published in Arquitectura in 1957, while “A responsabilidade de uma novíssima geração no Movimento Moderno em Portugal” [“The responsibility of a brand new generation in the Modern Movement in Portugal”] appeared in the same journal two years later, in 1959. The former is useful for grasping the cross-fertilization between Portugal and Italy in general, and the Portuguese journal Arquitectura and the Italian journal L'architettura: Cronache e storia, founded in 1955 by Bruno Zevi in Rome, more specifically, while the latter is important for understanding how the generational shift and the inauguration of the 3rd series of Arquitectura contributed to the reorientation of ideas regarding architecture in Portugal. The issue 57/58 of the journal Arquitectura, published in winter 1957, was the first issue of the 3rd series of the journal and represents a turning point since it is linked to a new generation within the Portuguese context, which was more open to European debates than the previous series of the same journal. The post-war context in Portugal was characterized by an intention to reinvent the connection between the architects and the social, economic and political setting within which their practice was inscribed. This reinvention of the architects’ role within society was related to the intensification of multidisciplinary approaches and the opening of architecture toward social sciences, geography, economics, anthropology and so on. The intensification of multidisciplinarity in architectural discourse and the critique of the principles of the Athens Charter were two central characteristics of this attempt to strengthen the articulations between architecture and its social, economic and political context. Regarding the sharpening of the multidisciplinary facet of architectural discourse, Portuguese architect Pedro
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